Summary
CRH Public Limited Company (CRH) filed a Form 6-K on March 17, 2023, to report a transaction involving its own shares. Specifically, on March 16, 2023, the company re-issued 1,116 ordinary shares from its treasury to participants in an employee share scheme. These shares were transferred at a price of €16.19 per share. This transaction is minor in scale relative to CRH's total shares outstanding. Following this re-issuance, CRH now holds 7,751,181 ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue, excluding treasury shares, stands at 744,389,157. This filing is primarily for informational purposes, detailing a routine corporate action related to employee compensation and share management.
Key Highlights
- 1CRH plc re-issued 1,116 ordinary shares from treasury on March 16, 2023.
- 2The shares were transferred to participants in an employee share scheme.
- 3The transaction price was €16.19 per ordinary share.
- 4Following the transaction, CRH holds 7,751,181 ordinary shares in treasury.
- 5The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) is 744,389,157.
- 6This filing is a Form 6-K, reporting a transaction in own shares.
- 7The event date was March 16, 2023, and the filing date was March 17, 2023.
Frequently Asked Questions
This filing (Form 6-K) was made to report a transaction where CRH plc re-issued ordinary shares from its treasury to participants in an employee share scheme. It is a disclosure of a specific corporate action involving the company's own shares.
A total of 1,116 ordinary shares were re-issued from CRH's treasury.
After this transaction, CRH plc has 744,389,157 ordinary shares in issue, excluding the 7,751,181 ordinary shares held in treasury.
No, this transaction is a routine corporate action related to employee share schemes and is very small in scale compared to the total number of shares outstanding. It does not suggest any significant changes in CRH's overall share structure or financial health.